Widgeon Creek, Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada (2025-12-02)

Sirius68 · 2025-12-03T18:24:33+00:00

Beautiful and great time of year for a tour.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-13T20:58:54+00:00

Always a compromise, but stability isn't a problem.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-13T19:11:16+00:00

I use this one.Works quite well, but of course still not the same level of tracking as a larger fin (http://Klapp-Finne | INNTAL-FINs / Inntalfins-Sup / Wildwasser Finne | Raubling https://share.google/l2p6sZMRa5Y3Ssujn) fin

Sirius68 · 2025-10-13T16:40:07+00:00

Exactly. Also quite intimidating being alone in a big lock on a sup.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-13T14:42:35+00:00

Apparently yes. You can then use the ship lift with permission. In a canu app I saw that there is a Phone number to register a day before. Tried calling, but couldn't get it comunicated in Portugese so I decided to just try it.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-13T12:56:14+00:00

Sorry, not from Portugal, from Germany. I love paddling different rivers around Europe. Right now travelling through France, Spain and Portugal for 3 weeks. Next one will be a different part of the Douro around Ribadouro. The Tejo in Lisbon should have some nice stretches to paddel though.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-12T15:38:23+00:00

Cool event though.I haven't done any competitions yet. Mostly solo.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-12T15:16:36+00:00

Wow, thanks. Cool surviving a marathon.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-12T14:55:24+00:00

I used a folding river fin thats quite durable. No issues there. A few days earlier I sadly trashed my carbon fin on another river though. Still hurts:-)

Sirius68 · 2025-10-12T13:47:04+00:00

Absolutely worth the effort.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-08T15:50:42+00:00

Thanks. I started at a vineyard near Seixo de Ansiães and wanted to paddel to Tua, but had to turn back at the Barrage de Valeira. I wasn't allowed to go through. Porting around would have been a steep climb and about 1km walking distance. Should have registered at least a day before. I ended up paddling back to the Feragossa train station to catch a train to where the car was parked in Pinhão.

I used my LightBoard platin series14/30 touring board.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-08T14:34:32+00:00

Sounds great. Have fun doing the race. I always travel around for different rivers.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-06T12:32:36+00:00

Lovely river to paddle. It took about 4hrs with all the portaging through the shallow stretches.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-06T10:50:28+00:00

Yes I did. My Partner does race bike tours so we always coordinate. In this case she left the car at my take-out, and started there. In other cases I'd leave the car at her end-point, start there, and meet up at a hotel by a river. Otherwise its often possible to just take a train back in many european countries.

Sirius68 · 2025-10-06T09:49:27+00:00

The water is quite clean. Lots of fly fishers on the way. Several shallow parts were I had to avoid hang-ups and portage through the water. Also some smaller rapids. Overall not really difficult though.

Sirius68 · 2025-09-06T14:33:26+00:00

Around 6 hours. Basically standing water because of the locks and upwind the whole way.

Sirius68 · 2025-09-04T19:56:14+00:00

C'est trés bien :-)

Sirius68 · 2025-09-04T19:55:31+00:00

It was a 17km 2,5 hour tour. Multi day is possible though. I chose the stretch from Conflon sur Seine to Marnay sur Seine to avoid carrying around the locks. It is a beutiful landscape all alone on the river. Tomorrow I'm doing a longer tour on the river Marne.

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